A bit of a necro, but I think I have good reason for reviving it for this particular rant.
I. Hate. The company I'm contracted out to right now. Why?
I was brought to a project as only a tester - test the application, that's it. Don't get the code, don't do any of that - I have to be separate from it to properly test it. That's fine, that's cool. I bug test it, give it to the guy who's supposed to be working on it and fixing it.
He ends up leaving and it gets put in the hands of another guy. I test what changes were made before the guy left and it's mostly the same stuff - so I hand off the barely modified bug list to him to start fixing up stuff. The last time I modified the first bug list was in July and it mentioned the sounds not working and an inability to move through the various lectures. Keep this in mind. All the while, he keeps pushing on trying to get me to download the source code and make the fixes for him - which is not what I'm supposed to be doing.
Fast forward a bit. He's made some changes, but several bugs are still around on the latest version of the bug list. Somehow, rather than him or the Project Manager heading the meetings with the clients... it's me. They have the tester as the "go-to" guy for explaining things and going and talking to the client. Whatever, fine. We have a meeting... about a week, week and a half ago and the two bugs I mentioned back in July become a point of contention - and the guy who was supposed to fix it had felt it hadn't been a needed fix.
Now, we have a meeting on Monday with the clients. Ask the guy who was supposed to be fixing the code if he fixed the TWO BUGS that were mentioned in the meeting. They haven't, apparently, and furthermore he says that he can't work on it - for reasons he doesn't bother to mention - and now the PM has told me to download the code and we'd "talk about it."
How I'm reading this? The guy who's been trying to pass the buck ever since it got put in his lap is about to successfully do so. With two glaring issues still unresolved that I noted back in July (possibly earlier, last modified after all). Leaving me with two days or less to get the code, learn the code, and figure out how to fix the problem.
In a job where my contracting company is taking half to a third of my salary for their services, provides no overtime pay, and requires me to use my scant few leave days on government holidays.
I am goddamn livid right now.
I. Hate. The company I'm contracted out to right now. Why?
I was brought to a project as only a tester - test the application, that's it. Don't get the code, don't do any of that - I have to be separate from it to properly test it. That's fine, that's cool. I bug test it, give it to the guy who's supposed to be working on it and fixing it.
He ends up leaving and it gets put in the hands of another guy. I test what changes were made before the guy left and it's mostly the same stuff - so I hand off the barely modified bug list to him to start fixing up stuff. The last time I modified the first bug list was in July and it mentioned the sounds not working and an inability to move through the various lectures. Keep this in mind. All the while, he keeps pushing on trying to get me to download the source code and make the fixes for him - which is not what I'm supposed to be doing.
Fast forward a bit. He's made some changes, but several bugs are still around on the latest version of the bug list. Somehow, rather than him or the Project Manager heading the meetings with the clients... it's me. They have the tester as the "go-to" guy for explaining things and going and talking to the client. Whatever, fine. We have a meeting... about a week, week and a half ago and the two bugs I mentioned back in July become a point of contention - and the guy who was supposed to fix it had felt it hadn't been a needed fix.
Now, we have a meeting on Monday with the clients. Ask the guy who was supposed to be fixing the code if he fixed the TWO BUGS that were mentioned in the meeting. They haven't, apparently, and furthermore he says that he can't work on it - for reasons he doesn't bother to mention - and now the PM has told me to download the code and we'd "talk about it."
How I'm reading this? The guy who's been trying to pass the buck ever since it got put in his lap is about to successfully do so. With two glaring issues still unresolved that I noted back in July (possibly earlier, last modified after all). Leaving me with two days or less to get the code, learn the code, and figure out how to fix the problem.
In a job where my contracting company is taking half to a third of my salary for their services, provides no overtime pay, and requires me to use my scant few leave days on government holidays.
I am goddamn livid right now.
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